The Impact of Christopher Columbus
The world changed when Christopher Columbus stumbled upon what is now known as America. The question is, did the world change for the better or for the worst? It is often conveyed as a good thing that Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered what he thought was India. Yet, how can it be shown as such when the facts are clear. Columbus did many things that impacted the world, most of those having a negative impact. The world is not a better place because Christopher Columbus discovered the New World for Europeans because of the Native American genocide, creating the need for slavery in America and the creation of the basis of what is now a world controlled by systematic racism.
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The National Association of Social Workers have stated just how slavery has impacted the world of today. “...multigenerational effect of the privileges of free white people as compared with the effect of slavery, Jim Crow segregation along with prejudicial immigration rules has resulted in a set of social structures that maintain and reinforce the barriers to the maximal human potential and dignity” (Craig de Silva 9). While slavery is no longer intact in America, the effects of it have stayed strong and alive to this day. Slavery has trained people to see dark skin as inferior, dark skin as dangerous and dark skin as uneducated. It is the reason that many black people today are not free to walk around in a hoodie and a hand in their pocket without a white person fearing for their life and taking the law into their own hands. The effects of racism go from being racially profiled in the grocery store to being paid less for the same job than a fellow co-worker with the same job. …show more content…
In the textbook, Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction, it is said that Spain received a more positive consequence from the discovery of the New World. “Spain’s American colonies helped make it the richest, most powerful nation in the world during much of the 16th century” (Littell 124). Spain became a force to be reckoned with because of them colonizing the New World. Spain became a much more important country that made other countries want to have close ties with Spain. Spain would not be seen as the grand country, that spread their ideas and colonized many lands, that it is seen as today if it had not made the grand discovery of what is now
The world changed when Christopher Columbus stumbled upon what is now known as America. The question is, did the world change for the better or for the worst? It is often conveyed as a good thing that Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered what he thought was India. Yet, how can it be shown as such when the facts are clear. Columbus did many things that impacted the world, most of those having a negative impact. The world is not a better place because Christopher Columbus discovered the New World for Europeans because of the Native American genocide, creating the need for slavery in America and the creation of the basis of what is now a world controlled by systematic racism.
Christopher Columbus discovering …show more content…
The National Association of Social Workers have stated just how slavery has impacted the world of today. “...multigenerational effect of the privileges of free white people as compared with the effect of slavery, Jim Crow segregation along with prejudicial immigration rules has resulted in a set of social structures that maintain and reinforce the barriers to the maximal human potential and dignity” (Craig de Silva 9). While slavery is no longer intact in America, the effects of it have stayed strong and alive to this day. Slavery has trained people to see dark skin as inferior, dark skin as dangerous and dark skin as uneducated. It is the reason that many black people today are not free to walk around in a hoodie and a hand in their pocket without a white person fearing for their life and taking the law into their own hands. The effects of racism go from being racially profiled in the grocery store to being paid less for the same job than a fellow co-worker with the same job. …show more content…
In the textbook, Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction, it is said that Spain received a more positive consequence from the discovery of the New World. “Spain’s American colonies helped make it the richest, most powerful nation in the world during much of the 16th century” (Littell 124). Spain became a force to be reckoned with because of them colonizing the New World. Spain became a much more important country that made other countries want to have close ties with Spain. Spain would not be seen as the grand country, that spread their ideas and colonized many lands, that it is seen as today if it had not made the grand discovery of what is now